Spending the day with the guys

Yesterday was a busy fun filled day! After we finished breakfast we headed downtown to see the start of the Iditarod.  While we hadn't planned on spending the entire say downtown, we did! It was a day full of walking!  Little man got to go on his first pony ride, horse drawn carriage ride, and not to mention his first ever Iditarod. We got to watch the Running with the Reindeer, that was a fun site. People dress up and enter this race (not sure how far it is, I believe it's only 2 or 3 city blocks) and they race reindeer to the finish line. There is also a carnival with rides, but we did that earlier in the week.  Yesterday I completed over 5 miles of walking.  Normally I average about 2 miles.

I felt like I did great yesterday with activity seeing how I walked so much and was on the go all day long.  But I was highly disappointed this morning when I got on the scale and I was up 3 pounds since yesterday morning! Are you kidding me?! I am sure that its due to my lack of water yesterday and my increased activity.  Even though I know there are good reasons for it, it doesn't make it any easier to swallow that my weight would go up so much overnight after being active! It can be discouraging to become more active if you see your weight spike so high so quickly.  Because we all low that it takes far longer for the weight to come off once it goes up.  So this little spike could take me a week to get rid of.  All because I am more active....  In the long run I am ok with that because I know that I am being proactive and moving!  I just have to keep reminding myself that the weight will come off and I am doing it the right way and making serious changes in my life, and my family's life.

As I was on my elliptical yesterday I noticed that it is getting easier for me.  I didn't realize that the incline and resistance were set until after I finished my workout.  Now I know that an incline of 3.5 and resistance of 1 aren't much, but the first time I set them, I noticed! And the fact that I didn't even notice them yesterday says a ton!  Speaking of which, I should probably get moving and do my workout for the day.  We have a hockey game to go to tonight and I hear the laundry calling my name....

Happy Sunday!